From: Pedro Arnal Puente <pedroarnal@...>
Date: 2008-10-21T20:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: I found way to protect Source Code! :)

Hello

2008/10/18 Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@gmail.com>:
> Thanks for advices :)
>
> So, as I understood, there are:
>
> - Software as a Service, with owned hosting.
> Yes! This is the best one, but sometimes clients wants something
> 'physically' tangible :).

If clients want something they can touch and poke, a nice alternative,
not so "safe" as hosted but not so open as source code, it's making it
an appliance. Deploy a virtualized server with your app hosted inside.

> - JRuby Compiler (http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Compiler)
> It's fully finished and ready to use.
>
> Translates <name>.rb => <name>.class and because it's not one to one
> mapping there is an information lost, that can be seen as the
> obfuscation.
>
> There is no .class to .rb decompiler, and (though, I'm not sure) these
> .class files cannot be decompiled even to .java ones.

Forget it, decompiling classes to very readable java source has been
trivial for many years.

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